Orders, Decorations and Medals Including five Special Collections

A Rhodesia 1896 and Boer War group of three to Private W. Bushell, York and Lancaster Regiment

British South Africa Company Medal 1890-97, reverse Rhodesia 1896 (3033 Pte. W. Bushell, 2/Y. & Lancr. Regt.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (3033 Pte. W. Bushell, 1 Yk. & Lanc. Regt.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (3033 Pte. W. Bushell, York. & Lanc. Regt.) light contact marks, otherwise good very fine (3) £300-350

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of Gordon Everson.

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William Bushell was born in the Parish of East Walton, Lynn, Norfolk, and enlisted for the York and Lancaster Regiment at Sheffield on 13 August 1891, aged 18 years 1 month. He passed classes of instruction in Big Gun Drill and Mounted Infantry during 1894, and served in Southern Rhodesia in 1896, and in South Africa 1899-1902. He was discharged, time expired, on 11 August 1903. Sold with copy photographs of the recipient, in one of which he is wearing medals.